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Bad for Bad's Sake

posted 11 years ago by bing-57
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You know, I enjoy the campiness of a bad movie as much as the next guy. But, I only enjoy it when the filmmaker thought he was making a good movie and then failed. I really don't like a bad movie when the filmmaker purposely set out to make a bad movie in hopes that it would become a cult classic. That's what this movie felt like.

And yes, I realize that the movie within a movie was supposed to be a bad movie. But, when you take a step back, the inside movie was pretty much the whole movie. It just happened to be framed as "Here's a reason to show you an entire bad movie that we purposely created to be bad."

On some level I liked it, but I just couldn't give it a good rating.

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[–] mam13143 10 years ago

Well a good point. Made to be a bad movie not like plan nine or similar. Still I liked it when I first saw it - Curtis and MacNee helped. Like it less each time I see it - have it on VHS.